President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

Philly had killed it as host of the nation’s 100th birthday; the 1926 event went very differently, for a variety of reasons.

On his first Fourth of July as president, President George W. Bush gave a speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

¶ President Coolidge having forbidden them to regard their semiweekly visits to his office as "interviews" (TIME, Feb. 13), newsgatherers last week refrained entirely from submitting ...

How do you do, President Coolidge? How do you do, President Coolidge? How are you? So sang a group of girls and boys, waving their hats or their handkerchiefs from the porch of Camp Roosevelt, when ...

For Christmas, the president bestowed upon Rebecca a collar embroidered with the title “White House Raccoon,” per the White House Historical Association. As Truman tells it, Coolidge also ...

In 1927, when President Coolidge announced that he wanted a summer away from bugs, crowds, a scheduled White House renovation, and the bad Washington, D.C. air that irritated his bronchitis, ...

Those words, uttered by President Coolidge at his inaugural 100 years ago, are top of mind as President-elect Trump prepares to be sworn to the parchment. Trump has been lofted back into office after ...

On August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding suddenly died. Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office, administered by his father, a justice of the peace. Myth has it that ...